Private Servers needed to grow the competetive scene

(outc1der) #1

SD developes and plans this game as a competetive friendly shooter as far as I know, so it should be important to maintain the growth of the competetive scene. DB is now in open Beta and more and more people play the game, so there will be also more players who are intrested in competetive play. But with the current private server situation it is already by far not optimal to play competetively even as a already existing closed beta team / dirtycups.gg participant who know about the possibility to use the Dirtycups private servers for scrims / pcws. The amount of of newly formed teams is going to increase in the next weeks so it is important to give these newcomers the possibility to train against each other as easy as possible and this means that private servers are needed. Private servers are the first requirement for a proper competetive scene and right now there are only a few servers from dirtycups.gg with even fewer admins.

This means that SD / Nexon should make the rental of private servers with admin rights possible as soon as possible! Otherwise it will hinder the growth of the comptetive scene, and when they wait to long Dirty Bomb will become pub stomping game with a cup each sunday.

Also to mention is that matchmaking isn’t a option for proper team training and should only be the step between playing on public server and tournament play and it is anyway completely broken at the moment.

regards,

outc1der

(outc1der) #2

reddit post

(Ardez1) #3

Already been requested many times.

As soon as possible! We’re harping on that!
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@outc1der That was the response earlier today when I asked.

(Jarppa) #4

Agreed, but not only rental server. We also need server binaries for us to install DB on our own HW.

(Nail) #5

server binaries are the least likely

(Jarppa) #6

Well if that get confirmed, then it’s time to hop to another game… sad, we have been waiting for it for almost a year now. Would have been also nice to play DB at lan party :frowning:

(Nail) #7

rental servers are very likely

(CASIZBEAST) #8

They really need to add the option for both rental servers and local servers if they want to grow this game as an eSports and personally I would love to play this at lan

(Nail) #9

a separate lan client/server setup might be possible, but it would be detached from XP/Credit system, otherwise people would just set up farm servers

(Jarppa) #10

That would be great, couldn’t care less of XP/Credit system even if I would run DB on my own server at internet or at LAN party, as long as you can choose which mercs and cards are available for the users.

(ToonBE) #11

@Nail will this include renting from an other company then nexon? f.e. gamesercers.com or w/e?

And yes disconnected from XP and credits of course!

(Zenity) #12

Perhaps local network games could be supported from the client, but it would be tricky without hooking into the main servers since so much relies on it (like your character loadouts).

I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ll see Dirty Bomb played on LAN via internet servers though. You already benefit from consistent pings at LAN, and there is something to be said for a consistent online/LAN experience. The downside would mainly be the risk of DDOS and other connectivity issues, but don’t Dota2 and LoL do it like that as well?

(Jarppa) #13

Like stated above, these servers can be without ranking, credits and XP… or what would be best is that these servers would have own XP ranking (without credits and all would have loadout cards which server admin has selected).

I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ll see Dirty Bomb played on LAN via internet servers though. You already benefit from consistent pings at LAN, and there is something to be said for a consistent online/LAN experience. The downside would mainly be the risk of DDOS and other connectivity issues, but don’t Dota2 and LoL do it like that as well?

What if LAN facility don’t have good enough internet connectivity, for example we gather twice a year to a old farmer house middle of country side, which have some crap ADSL connection that don’t allow us to play in servers which are at internet.

(Dwu) #14

Fully configurable ( class limits / loadout cards available etc ) private servers with capability to run custom maps, even if fully detached from XP/credit/loadout/ranking system are a must have if you want to make this game anything more than a pub fragging game.